by Greg Turnquist | Feb 24, 2015 | asciidoctor
My work on creating an asciidoctor backend for Packt Publishing (i.e. OpenOffice) seems to have caught several people’s attention. Today I spotted an exchange of tweets asking about OpenOffice in general. I figured a more detailed approach to doing that would...
by Greg Turnquist | Jan 23, 2015 | asciidoctor, book, learning spring boot, pythontestingcookbook, spring python
I recently had a friend of mine ask me about the viability of writing a book for his open source project. He had questions about how to submit a proposal as well as the money involved. I wrote him a detailed response, but decided to post some of my lessons learned...
by Greg Turnquist | Dec 1, 2014 | asciidoctor, book, learning spring boot
Russ is a good friend of mine I met back in 2008. He was working for SpringSource at the time as a consultant. He had spotted my open source project, Spring Python, and invited me to make it an official Spring Extension. I was quite excited! Along the way, I had this...
by Greg Turnquist | Aug 28, 2014 | asciidoctor, book, learning spring boot, spring boot, spring security
Last night, I worked from 9:30pm until 2am on Learning Spring Boot. Whew! It was tough work, but I needed to pull it across the finish line. I had the code lined up quite nicely for the entire chapter. I simply need to tell the story of how all this stuff worked...
by Greg Turnquist | Aug 12, 2014 | asciidoctor, spring boot
In the past week, I have focused on porting the Spring Data Evans release train to asciidoctor. It has been joyous and torturous. The joy is moving away from docbook and towards asciidoctor. The torture is dealing with all of docbook’s idiosyncrasies and the...
by Greg Turnquist | Jul 9, 2014 | asciidoctor, python
My nephew expressed interest last year in creating games and programs on his computer. I bought him a super cool book, Making Games with Python and Pygame. He’s been busy with other things, but today I got a call from him asking how to set up Python. I was...
